Li, Boyuan 1867-1906 creator text utu 2008 monographic zh 1 online resource : multiple file formats "官場現形記" by Boyuan Li is a late-Qing Chinese novel written between 1901 and 1906. This sprawling satirical work exposes the corruption and disintegration of China's civil service bureaucracy through over 800 characters and numerous interconnected episodes. The novel follows officials, aspiring bureaucrats, merchants, and women caught in a deteriorating system, weaving together themes of state decline, imperialism, and the commercialization of human relationships. With over 600,000 Chinese characters, this masterpiece of satirical writing offers an inventive and coherent critique of society's mercantile orientation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officialdom_Unmasked Release date is 2008-01-03 Produced by Liu Meng-Tien Original publication data not identified China -- Social life and customs -- 1644-1912 -- Fiction PL Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24138 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24138 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133543.0 24138